If temperatures are cool, or conditions are too wet, blooms could be delayed
With Colorado’s snowpack ranging from ample to exceptional this spring, hikers who adore wildflowers may already be envisioning days of strolling along lush landscapes of spectacular blooms under columbine-blue skies when all that snow melts.
“That can eat up a lot of the moisture,” Bates said. “If you have really dry atmospheres, that’s going to prevent water from getting into the system. If it melts too fast and runs off without soaking in, that’s going to have an effect.” “That’s not to say blooms won’t be good this year, they will be, it just won’t approach ‘super blooms’ until we get a few wet winters in a row.”
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